Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2015, were 12,828, with 390,689 beds (6.4 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

European Health Interview Survey (EHIS)

The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), established by the Commission Regulation (EU) no. 141/2013, was conducted in all the Member States of the European Union […]

Sexual harassment at work

This note presents the results, referred to the years 2015-2016, of the estimate of sexual harassment suffered by women and men and of women victims […]

Municipalities' expenditure for social services

The statistical measurement of the resources used for social services by the Municipalities, individually or in an associated form, confirms, also in 2015, the tendency […]

Sports practice in Italy

In 2015, over 20 million people aged 3 and over practiced one or more sports continuously (24.4%) or occasionally (9.8%). The rate of those who […]

Health conditions of the elderly

Life expectancy at 65 years in Italy (18.9 years for men and 22.2 for women in 2015) was one year higher than the European Union […]

World suicide prevention day

On the occasion of the World suicide prevention day (10 september 2017), Istat presents in an infographic some characteristics of this phenomenon in the recent […]

The system of health accounts in Italy

Istat disseminates for the first time the estimates for the system of health accounts with reference to the period 2012-2016. The system of health accounts […]

Use of alcohol

In 2016 the percentage of population aged 11 and over who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 64.7%. This rate […]

Condition and integration of foreign citizens

In 2011-2012 Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) conducted the first national survey on Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens (SCIF). The SCIF survey […]